52 Quotations by Laurence J. Peter
- 21. Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

- 22. Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.

- 23. Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

- 24. Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

- 25. Going to church does not make a person religious, nor does going to school make a person educated, a ...

- 26. Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.

- 27. Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

- 28. If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

- 29. If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

- 30. If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

- 31. In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

- 32. In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

- 33. It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.

- 34. It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

- 35. Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.

- 36. Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

- 37. Many people quit work when they find a job.

- 38. Men now monopolize the upper levels… depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for in ...

- 39. Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

- 40. Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

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